Podstrochnik Episode 10
Podstrochnik (Documentary Series)
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26m
National anti-semitism is on the rise as Lilianna makes a clandestine trip back to Moscow. Her mother stays behind in Naberezhnye Chelny, but the years there were hard on her and soon after returning to the Capital with Lilianna, as the war is ebbing, she dies.
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